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How to Meet Your Credit Card Spending Requirement 01/28/2024 07:00pm • Getting a new credit card is one of the fastest methods of earning a big chunk of miles or points. Many rewards credit cards offer a welcome bonus for new customers when they meet the card's minimum spending requirement. However, some credit cards require significant spending -- $1,000 to $4,000 or Is It Cheaper to Live in Connecticut and Commute to New York City? 01/28/2024 07:00pm • Living in New York City, especially in Manhattan and in some parts of Brooklyn, is expensive. In fact, it is often ranked as the most expensive real estate in the country -- and the world. People who live in New York City frequently wonder how much money they would save if they lived outside the cit A Checklist for Moving to Your New Home 01/28/2024 07:00pm • Preparing to move to your new home seems like a relatively simple task -- until you actually take stock of everything you own and consider both what to pack and what to leave behind. The process gets even more complicated when you factor in the opening and closing of utility accounts, cleaning and t Roger Penske wins first Rolex 24 at Daytona since 1969 with Indy 500 winner Newgarden in lineup 01/28/2024 05:42pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Roger Penske snapped a 54-year losing streak at the Rolex 24 at Daytona on Sunday when Felipe Nasr held off two-time defending race winner Tom Blomqvist in the final 45 minutes of the most prestigious endurance race in the United States. The win for Team Penske at Dayton A Rolex seller meets up with a Facebook Marketplace thief. It goes all wrong from there 01/28/2024 05:36pm • Massapequa Park, N.Y. (AP) — An $8,000 Facebook Marketplace deal has gone bad on Long Island, with a man who was selling a Rolex watch jumping onto the hood of the thief's car in a quixotic attempt to keep from being robbed. “I was not going to roll over and let this man take it ... without a fi French farmers aim to put Paris 'under siege' in tractor protest. Activists hurl soup at 'Mona Lisa' 01/28/2024 05:06pm • PARIS (AP) — France's interior ministry on Sunday ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris as angry farmers threatened to head toward the capital, hours after climate activists hurled soup at the glass protecting the “Mona Lisa” painting at the Louvre Museum. French farmers a 2 are in custody in Mississippi after baby girl is found abandoned behind dumpsters 01/28/2024 03:30pm • HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — Two people were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the abandonment of a newborn girl who was found last week behind dumpsters in Mississippi, authorities said. The two people were arrested Friday, the Marshall County Sheriff's Office said on social medi Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are idling car factories and delaying new fashion. Will it get worse? 01/28/2024 12:04am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Car factories have idled in Belgium and Germany. Spring fashion lines are delayed at a popular British department store. A Maryland company that makes hospital supplies doesn’t know when to expect parts from Asia. Attacks on ships in the Red Sea are delivering another shock to Michigan case offers an example of how public trust suffers when police officers lie 01/28/2024 12:02am • DETROIT (AP) — A Black man who was detained by police during an early morning walk in a quiet community northwest of Detroit says the white officer who threw him against a squad car, cuffed him and accused him of planning to break into a car also told a significant lie. Brian Chaney says he asked Rockies great Todd Helton still getting used to Hall of Fame selection 01/27/2024 10:24pm • DENVER (AP) — Todd Helton never thought he was going to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Right until he was selected for Cooperstown. Days after Helton was elected to the Hall by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, the slugging first baseman is still getting used to the idea. “I didn’t t Recovery efforts underway after vehicle drives off Virginia fishing pier 01/27/2024 04:03pm • Recovery efforts are underway after a vehicle drove off a Virginia fishing pier and became fully submerged in ocean waters early Saturday morning, police said. A 911 caller reported the incident around 6:52 a.m. ET at the Virginia Beach Fishing Pier, police said. Officers arrived on the scene Loudoun County to charge fees for charging electric vehicles at 2 Metrorail parking garages 01/27/2024 03:32pm • Electric vehicle drivers in Loudoun County will soon have to pay to charge their cars at charging stations inside two Metrorail parking garages owned and operated by the Virginia county. The county said that it will charge $2.10 per session to use the service at the Ashburn Station South and Loud Authorities identify 2 teenage boys shot and killed while leaving Chicago school with other students 01/27/2024 02:33pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Two teenage boys who were fatally shot Friday by masked suspects as they and other students were leaving a Chicago high school have been identified by authorities. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victims as 17-year-old Monterio Williams and 16-year-old Rob French farmers vow to continue protesting despite the government's offer of concessions 01/27/2024 12:44pm • PARIS (AP) — Angry French farmers Saturday threatened to converge on Paris in the coming days as traffic barricades were only partially lifted on the country's major roads. The developments came a day after the government announced a series of measures the farmers said do not fully address their d Man convicted of manslaughter in the killing of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith 01/27/2024 09:33am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man who shot former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith following a traffic crash nearly eight years ago has been convicted of manslaughter. The jury deliberated for more than four hours and reached its verdict in the retrial of Cardell Hayes just after midnight Saturday, news